Kartabhaja dharmer itibrtta.

AuthorDas, Rahul Peter

The syncretistic Kartabhajas have been the subject of much controversy, especially in the last century, when their influence on the Calcutta elite was not negligible. One of the first studies trying to lift the veil of controversy and examine the development and spread of this religious group in an objective manner was published in 1968, but did not become very well known and was moreover soon unavailable; a new edition has now appeared.(30) The editor of this annotated reprint justifies it by observing in his foreword, in which he also draws attention to newer literature,(31) that more recent research has still not progressed very much further than this study. The text is reprinted unchanged (though the original illustrations have been left out), with additional notes, marked as such, added by the editor when this seemed appropriate. In one of these notes (p. 5 1, n. 1) he very carefully corrects the author's opinion that the Kartabhajas differed from groups such as the Bauls mainly in not having any sexual rituals; though...

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